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Job 37:9
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The windstorm comes from its chamber,and the cold from the driving north winds.
Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold out of the north.
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
The storm comes from where it was stored; the cold comes with the strong winds.
A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.
"Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold from the north wind.
"From the south comes the storm, And from the north wind the cold.
Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold out of the north.
The whirlewind commeth out of the South, and the colde from the North winde.
Out of the south comes the storm,And out of the north the cold.
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
The windstorms of winter strike,
"Out of its chamber comes the storm, with cold out of the north.
From the chamber [of the south] cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds of the north.
Whirlwinds come from the south. The cold winds come from the north.
Out of the inner chambers comes the whirlwind; and cold out of the downpour.
The storm winds come from the south, and the biting cold from the north.
"The storm wind comes from its chamber and cold from the north wind.
Out of the storeroom comes the tempest, and cold from scattering winds.
Out of the south commeth the tempest, and colde out of the north.
Out of the chamber of the south cometh the storm, And cold out of the north.
Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.
Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.
Out of the South commeth the whirlewinde: and cold out of the North.
Out of the south commeth the tempest, and colde out from the north winde.
Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, and cold from the mountain-tops.
Out of the chamber of the south cometh the storm: and cold out of the north.
Tempestis schulen go out fro the ynnere thingis, and coold fro Arturus.
Out of the chamber [of the south] comes the storm, And cold out of the north.
From the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold from the north.
From the chamber of the south comes the whirlwind, And cold from the scattering winds of the north.
The stormy wind comes from its chamber, and the driving winds bring the cold.
The storm comes from the south, and the cold from the north.
From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
Out of a chamber cometh a storm-wind, and, out of the north, cold.
Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north.
From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds -- cold,
"Out of the south comes the storm, And out of the north the cold.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
south: Heb. chamber, Job 9:9, Psalms 104:3
the whirlwind: Job 38:1, Isaiah 21:1, Zechariah 9:14
north: Heb. scattering winds
Reciprocal: Psalms 147:16 - scattereth Ecclesiastes 1:6 - The wind
Cross-References
Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."
Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.
They said, "Your servant our father is well; he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.
When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind,.... Or "from the chamber" n; from the chamber of the cloud, as Ben Gersom, from the inside of it; or from the treasury of God, who bringeth the wind out of his treasures; alluding to chambers where treasures are kept; or from the heavens, shut up and veiled around with clouds like a pavilion: but because we read of the chambers of the south, Job 9:9; and the southern pole was like a secret chamber, shut up, unseen, and unknown very much to the ancients; hence we render it, and others interpret it, of the south; from whence in these countries came whirlwinds. Hence we read of the whirlwinds of the south, Isaiah 21:1;
and cold out of the north; cold freezing winds from thence; or "from the scatterers" o: Aben Ezra interprets them of stars, the same with the "Mazzaroth", Job 38:32; stars scattered about the Arctic or northern pole, as some: or rather the northern winds are designed which scatter the clouds, drive away rain, Proverbs 25:23; and bring fair weather,
Job 37:22. Wherefore Mr. Broughton renders the word,
"fair weather winds;''
and, in a marginal note,
"the scatterers of clouds p.''
n מן החדר "de penetali", Montanus; so Junius and Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schultens. o ממזרים "a dispergentibus", Montanus, Vatablus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "a sparsoribus", Schultens. p So David de Pomis, Lexic. fol. 7. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Out of the south - Margin, “chamber.” Jerome, “ab interioribus - from the interior,” or “inner places.” Septuagint, ἐκ ταυείων ek taueiōn - “from their chambers issue sorrows” - ὀωύνας othunas. The Hebrew word used here (חדר cheder) denotes properly “an apartment,” or “chamber,” especially an inner apartment, or a chamber in the interior of a house or tent: Genesis 43:30; Judges 16:9, Judges 16:12. Hence, it means a bed-chamber, 2 Samuel 4:7, or a female apartment or harem, Song of Solomon 1:4; Song of Solomon 3:4. In Job 9:9, it is connected with the “south” - “the chambers of the south” (see the notes at that place), and means some remote, hidden regions in that quarter. There can be little doubt that the word “south “is here also to be understood, as it stands in contrast with a word which properly denotes the north. Still there may have been reference to a supposed opinion that whirlwinds had their origin in deep, hollow caves, and that they were owing to the winds which were supposed to be pent up there, and which raged tumultuously until they broke open the doors of their prison, and then poured forth with violence over the earth; compare the description of the storm in Virgil, as quoted above in Job 37:5. There are frequent allusions in the Scriptures to the fact that whirlwinds come from the South; see the notes at Isaiah 21:1; compare Zechariah 9:14. Savary says of the south wind, which blows in Egypt from February to May, that it fills the atmosphere with a fine dust, rendering breathing difficult, and that it is filled with an injurious vapor. Sometimes it appears in the form of a furious whirlwind, which advances with great rapidity, and which is highly dangerous to those who traverse the desert. It drives before it clouds of burning sand; the horizon appears covered with a thick veil, and the sun appears red as blood. Occasionally whole caravans are buried by it in the sand. It is possible that there may be reference to such a whirlwind in the passage before us; compare Burder, in Rosenmuller’s Alte u. neue Morgenland. No. 765.
The whirlwind - See Job 1:19, note; Job 30:22, note.
And cold out of the north - Margin, “scattering” winds. The Hebrew word used here (מזרים mezâriym) means literally, “the scattering,” and is hence used for the north winds, says Gesenius which scatter the clouds, and bring severe cold. Umbreit thinks the word is used to denote the north, because we seem to see the north winds strewed on the clouds. Probably the reference is to the north wind as scattering the snow or hail on the ground. Heated winds come from the south; but those which scatter the snow, and are the source of cold, come from the north. In all places north of the equator it is true that the winds from the northern quarter are the source of cold. The idea of Elihu is, that all these things are under the control of God, and that these various arrangements for heat and cold are striking proofs of his greatness.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 37:9. Out of the south cometh the whirlwind — Job 9:9. What is rendered south here, is there rendered chambers. Mr. Good translates here, the utmost zone. The Chaldee: - "From the supreme chamber the commotion shall come; and from the cataracts of Arcturus the cold." What the whirlwind, סופה suphah, is, we know not. It might have been a wind peculiar to that district; and it is very possible that it was a scorching wind, something like the simoom.
